Fidel Sanchez Hernandez

Fidel Sanchez Hernandez (7 July 1917-28 February 2003) was President of El Salvador from 1 July 1967 to 15 October 1972, succeeding Julio Adalberto Rivera and preceding Arturo Armando Molina.

Biography
Fidel Sanchez Hernandez was born on 7 July 1917 in El Divisadero, El Salvador. He served in the Salvadoran Army as a military attache to the United States in Washington DC after helping in the coup against Jose Maria Lemus, and from 1962 to 1967 he served as Minister of the Interior. He succeeded Julio Adalberto Rivera as President on 1 July 1967 and led the Salvadoran Army in the 1969 Soccer War against Honduras, occupying much of the country before the peace forced him to withdraw. He remained president until 1972, and Colonel Arturo Armando Molina succeeded him. He died in 2003.